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Chestnut Beer
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Chestnut Beer

The ultimate in nutty brews.
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Svalbard Brewery Beer
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Svalbard Brewery Beer

The world's northernmost commercial brewery makes beer with water from a glacier.
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Casu Marzu
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Casu Marzu

The Sardinian cheese that wriggles with maggots.
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Mish
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Mish

This sharp and salty Egyptian cheese ferments for months in a bath of milk and spices.
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Hot Cheese Sandwich
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Hot Cheese Sandwich

The original cheeseburger, hold the beef patty.
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Callu de Cabrettu
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Callu de Cabrettu

Sardinia may be home to the oldest style of cheese.
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Crowdie
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Crowdie

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.
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Timanoix
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Timanoix

Monks and nuns elevate this soft cheese with a wash of walnut liqueur.
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Nakládaný Hermelín
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Nakládaný Hermelín

The pungent pickled cheese is a popular Czech bar snack.
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Cougar Gold Cheese
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Cougar Gold Cheese

This canned cheddar is made using a secret 70-year-old bacteria culture.
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Divle Obruk
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Divle Obruk

The rare, cave-aged Turkish cheese is one of the last vestiges of a dying cheese-making tradition.
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Tête de Moine
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Tête de Moine

"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.
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Würchwitzer Mite Cheese
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Würchwitzer Mite Cheese

You'll love it almost as much as the critters clinging to the rind.
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Pule
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Pule

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.
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Cherni Vit Green Cheese
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Cherni Vit Green Cheese

A small village in Bulgaria is working to revive its nearly extinct moldy cheese.
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Kurt
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Kurt

These cheese balls have fueled Central Asian nomads for centuries.
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Năsal Cheese
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Năsal Cheese

In a Romanian village, a cave's unique conditions produce a rare, funky cheese.
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Yak Cheese
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Yak Cheese

From hulking plains creatures comes a delicate, nutty cheese.
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Oscypek
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Oscypek

In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.
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Dill Pickle Pizza
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Dill Pickle Pizza

This is one seriously polarizing pie.
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Cuy
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Cuy

The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
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Pique a lo Macho
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Pique a lo Macho

Can you finish Bolivia's enormous starch-and-protein explosion?
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Churo Snails
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Churo Snails

Lima chefs love to experiment with this large Amazon river dweller.
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Moroccan Snails
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Moroccan Snails

The fragrant, intricately spiced street food is a medina specialty.
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